There are a number of books on a shelf. If one book is the 4th from the left and 6th from the right, how many books are on the shelf?

I am a five-letter word and people eat me. If you remove the first letter I become an energy form. If you remove the first two letters, I am needed to live. Scramble the last three letters and I am a drink. What word am I?

If two's company, and three's a crowd, then whats four and five ?

Your last good ping-pong ball fell into a narrow metal pipe embedded one foot deep in concrete.
How can you get it out undamaged, if all the tools you have are your tennis paddle, shoe laces, and plastic water bottle, which does not fit into the pipe?

Find three whole, positive numbers that have the same answer when multiplied together as when added together.

Three playing cards in a row. Can you name them with these clues? There is a two to the right of a king. A diamond will be found to the left of a spade. An ace is to the left of a heart. A heart is to the left of a spade. Now, identify all three cards.

How far can you walk into the woods?

What is in seasons, seconds, centuries and minutes but not in decades, years or days?

Look at this sequence from top to bottom. What is the next number in the sequence?
1
11
21
1211
111221
312211

I am a word of 12 alphabets.

* Alphabets 12, 4, 7, 2, 5 : Eastern beast of burden
* Alphabets 1, 8, 10, 9 are street made famous by Sinclair Lewis.
* Alphabets 11, 3, 6 are past.

On whole it means a person suffering from delusions of greatness.

What Is it ?